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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:59:33 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:17:06 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

Subsidies are government limits? (I don't think the government should put
"limits" on farmers. But -- and this isn't a point I want to argue here
because I haven't researched the economic realities so I'm not qualified --
I think subsidies could potentially have a place. So what am I supposed to
say?)

Subsidies have a place if you are of the opinion that it is in the
National Interest to be selfsufficient to a degree in food. In a
sense, farming subsidies are a part of National Defense.

Jasper



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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) Hey look, me too. (Anyone surprised?) Interesting the web version of this quiz is slightly different from the one I got off of Freshmeat (ported to Unix by Eric Raymond...). That version makes some of the questions be very loaded (to the point (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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